Posted by David Gibbs on 24-09-2011 18:10
#8
Nick Upton wrote:
Thanks Jorge, so you are out there! I hope David will see this and comment. 2 of the capucina images in the gallery are his, taken in France. But did you see the photo in this link http://naturewonders.piwigo.com/picture?/698/categories of the Turkish "E. capucina" Looks a lot like mine... But the taxonomy may well need a shake up.
Firstly the fly in the above link is misidentified,
capucina has a quite different wing pattern (see gallery) and i can only assume that it is a wild guess by someone who cares nothing for accuracy. The internet is just heaving with such random naming, even on some otherwise good websites (eg ispot).
Without a specimen to run through a key it is difficult to be confident of any identificaton, particularly of a species i have not got specimens of myself, as is the case here. However, i think it highly likely that this is
Exoprosopa pectoralis Lw.
Would be good to have this one in gallery.